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Sillimanite from
Mase Mountain, Tierneys Corner, Jefferson Township, Morris County, New Jersey, USA


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Sillimanite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sillimanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mase Mountain, Tierneys Corner, Jefferson Township, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:99466
Long-form Identifier:1:3:99466:6
GUID (UUID V4):6785b89c-9a7c-4228-ab9a-ca67712381b3
Nearest other occurrences of Sillimanite
14.0km (8.7 miles) Copper Mine shaft, Edison Mine, Sparta Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
15.3km (9.5 miles) Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
23.1km (14.3 miles) Hamburg Mountain, Hardyston Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
25.5km (15.8 miles) Shiloh, Frelinghuysen Township, Jenny Jump Mountain, Warren County, New Jersey, USA
28.9km (18.0 miles) Pochuck Mountain, McAfee, Vernon Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
33.9km (21.1 miles) Hoit Mine, White Township, Warren County, New Jersey, USA
55.0km (34.2 miles) VIllage of Monroe, Town of Monroe, Orange County, New York, USA
55.2km (34.3 miles) World Trade Center Site, Manhattan (New York County), New York City, New York, USA
60.9km (37.8 miles) Stony Point (Woodbury), Rockland County, New York, USA
65.7km (40.8 miles) Crugers Emery Mine, Montrose, Cortlandt Township, Westchester County, New York, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Grenvillian New Jersey Highlands and Implications for the Source of Boron Richard A. Volkert † New Jersey Geological...Water Survey, 29 Arctic Parkway, Trenton, NJ 08625, USA; rvolkert@comcast.net † The author is retired. Received:...paragneiss at two locations in the Grenvillian New Jersey Highlands, occurring in an assemblage composed...K-feldspar + plagioclase + garnet + Fe-Ti oxides ± sillimanite ± rutile ± graphite. Estimates of the metamorphic...borosilicates. Keywords: Grenvillian Orogeny; New Jersey Highlands; supracrustal paragneiss; kornerupine;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pages 1730–1738, 2006 A rare garnet-tourmaline-sillimanite-biotite-ilmenite-quartz assemblage from the granulite-facies...rare lithology consisting of garnet-tourmaline-sillimanite-biotite-ilmenite-quartz has been found within...intermediate-grade metamorphism. At higher grades, sillimanite and other borosilicates may become important...the Siluro-Devonian Merrimack Synclinorium of the New England Appalachians contain tourmaline at low to...for a rare granulite-facies garnet-tourmaline-sillimanite-biotite-ilmenite-quartz assemblage from the region
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
increasing Fe2O3 and Fe31/SFe ratio of the associated sillimanite, sapphirine, and ilmenite-hematite, i.e., the...kornerupine prism in a matrix of cordierite, sillimanite, and phlogopite; kyanite occurs as rare, rounded...relatively low ƒO2, whereas the Fe31 contents of sillimanite and the Fe31/SFe ratios of sapphirine and ilmenite-hematite...(2) analyses have been reported for associated sillimanite, sapphirine, or ilmenite-hematite. When available...samples from the one locality. Port Shepstone, Mase Mountain, and Waldheim meet these criteria (Grew 1986;
Report (volume)
advertising or promotional purposes, for creating new collective works, or for resale. For permission to...Chemistry of Boron and its Compounds, p 25-154 Wiley, New York, NY; Kidd RG (1983) Boron-11. In: P Laszlo (ed)...Newly Accessible Nuclei, p 50-78 Academic Press, New York; Shannon RD (1976) Revised effective ionic radii...are merged onto pages 115-116 and 385. A table of new B-minerals since 1996 is given on p. 28, and many...research related to B are mentioned in the addenda: New minerals. Twenty-two boron minerals have been or
Report (volume)
advertising or promotional purposes, for creating new collective works, or for resale. For permission to...Chemistry of Boron and its Compounds, p 25-154 Wiley, New York, NY; Kidd RG (1983) Boron-11. In: P Laszlo (ed)...Newly Accessible Nuclei, p 50-78 Academic Press, New York; Shannon RD (1976) Revised effective ionic radii...Ac sunccn sack ood cesccece tenn aaa cane syk ees Usa RUT TRO Re ete ret ee 182 BAK CIC sc cee ca thabucasats...EVapOritic Processesiat (rs, saceeneee Sieh Mie ee Mase, REP is oe seek oe 602 Contact metasomatism <:
 
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